I spent the entire afternoon attempting to reduce a massively large paper that I wrote for my Fulbright project into a much more sucinct paper for the upcoming Ethicomp 2004 conference in Greece. Yipes, what a day! It has gone from about 30 pages to a little over 15, but the limit is 12..... I don't know how on earth I can get it any smaller! I've been over the thing so many times I think my eyes are crossing, but I've still got 3 1/2 pages to get rid of. It's sad to throw out stuff I've worked so hard on! But, I have found a potential use for the scraps. Aside from the recycle bin on my computer, there is a conference coming up in 2005 (gee that's so far away!) with the Women Into Computing organization. It would be super cool to do another take on my project at this conference in London. My current approach is a more integrated, philosophical approach to problems of employment for women in Japan. It's quite interesting, but my head feels muddled from all the aspects I'm covering just to make one point. I don't know if I can post the actual paper that I'm using for the conference, otherwise I'd show it to everyone now. Once it's completed, I'll post it with reference to the conference. It's pretty boring unless you're into women's issues and Japanese society, but I'm having fun with it. It's very nice to finally be able to independently research issues that I have interest in and to pool together the knowledge I have attained to create some points of my own. It's like school but much freer. I'm setting the boundaries, and I'm deciding the content. And the plus side is that what write is not going to be judged by anyone who has control over my academic achievements. The worst that can happen is I get laughed at while presenting (but even if that happens, I get to go to Greece, so you can't hear any complaints coming from me!).
In other news, I'm off to watch the Ring Zero (for all of you out there who have seen the American version of the Japanese movie, The Ring). The Ring Zero is a sequel to The Ring II (yes there is a sequel to The Ring). Unfortunately the Japanese versions seem to lack any sort of coherent plot, and they mostly consist of cheesy visual effects that I think are supposed to scare me, but they mostly just make me laugh. If you haven't seen The Ring, you should if you like scary movies and you shouldn't if you don't like 'em. Check out my old post on here if you want to read more!
Posted by Kristen at January 12, 2004 06:51 PM
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